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<div class="">Laura Foster and Tolu Odumosu’s call for papers yesterday reminded me that I wanted to reach out asking if there’s a site anywhere that pools syllabi relating to STS-Africa (including history) on various themes. I’m also interested in review articles
that set new research priorities for the field.</div>
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<div class="">Along these lines, I thought I’d share a piece I wrote last summer and that went live in November on “The History and Historiography of Science” for
<i class="">Oxford’s Encyclopedia of African History</i>. </div>
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<div class="">I’ll add that when I was invited to prepare this, other authors, including Clapperton Mavhunga, had been solicited to write their own review essays on technology (and medicine) so while I touch on some technological (and medical) themes, I left
a lot of this literature to one side (including citations because I assumed these authors would cite their own work). That’s the peril of disciplinary sub-divisions :-)</div>
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<div class="">But caveats aside, here’s the link to the online version and a pdf of the piece is attached below.</div>
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<div class=""><a href="http://oxfordre.com/africanhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277734-e-353" class="">http://oxfordre.com/africanhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277734-e-353</a></div>
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<div class="">I’m sure many on this list have written terrific review essays and it might benefit us all to pool this information somewhere for ourselves and our students. </div>
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<div class="">All best wishes for the New Year!</div>
<div class="">Helen</div>
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